The Mechamo Inchworm kit is a creepy/beautiful member of Gakken’s Mechanical Animals Series. You can make a mind-blowing remote controlled “Meka-Inchworm” robot with this fun, no-soldering-required kit. You’ve got to love a machine that moves like a bug! MAKE is proud to be the exclusive distributor in North America for these brilliant kits. The Mechamo […]
This video shows how I built an ultrasonic tape measure using an Arduino Duemilanove, a PING))) sensor, and a 7-Segment Shield.
I’ve been hiring Angus Hines of Carrolton, VA, for a couple of months now for all my contract laser-cutting, and I can’t say enough good things about him. But, heck, I’ve never met him, so let’s focus on the empirical: Angus consistently quotes me about half what the big-laser cutters want to charge on the same jobs. (Hopefully he knows that, and I haven’t just shot myself in the foot by pointing it out.) Seriously, Angus himself says, “one of my goals is to help bring the price of DIY tech down to a more reasonable level.”
Now Angus is offering a kit of all the acrylic parts for the open-source Fab@Home Model 2 3D printer at about 75% of what the Fab@Home preferred vendors are charging. [Thanks, Angus!]
The Povard is a large hand held POV device that is built onto a very cool laser cut and etched acrylic bezel. A POV “tricks” your eyes into seeing a full image when only part of the image is visible at one time. This effect is called the “Persistence Of Vision.”
The Pocket Piano Synth kit makes your Arduino into a portable stand-alone music synthesizer.
Looking for detailed photos of the Make: Electronics Components Pack 2? You’re in luck! John Park uploaded this lovely set of photos cataloging the contents.
I put together the breadboarded relay oscillator experiment from the excellent Make: Electronics book, using the parts from the Make: Electronics Components Pack 1, both of which are available from the Maker Shed. Since the power adapter in the kit has some barrel plugs I didn’t want to sever, I came up with a way to adapt it for use with the terminal screws on the supplied breadboard.
